Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword
Searches Hacker News stories and comments for a phrase, here AI agents, and with only-new switched on returns each match once across scheduled runs. Replace the phrase with your product, company or technology to get an alert feed of new mentions.
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The Hacker News API: Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring Jobs Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword". Sign up or log in and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.
Start the "Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword" task
The Hacker News API: Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring Jobs Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like mode, search query, and more, to match your specific use case.
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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as rank, title, points, and more.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword" task via API.
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The "Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword" task returns one record per story: rank, title, points, comment count, author, time, domain, link and Hacker News link.
With onlyNew on, the Hacker News keyword monitor remembers what earlier runs returned in a key-value store in your account and returns only items it has not returned before.
Copy the "Monitor Hacker News for mentions of a keyword" task to your Apify account, then add a schedule in Apify Console or start it with the Run task API endpoint. Results download as JSON, CSV or Excel.